Le Dungeon de Art, Design & Cool Stuff

The roundhouse kick kicks butt effectively. In my opinion, a super-heroine who cannot do a decent roundhouse kick is lame. Changing how the arms are positioned doesn’t lessen the powerful imagery of this kick.

From flight or a high jump, I believe this has got to be the best way to land. I drew it in my sketchbook as a reminder. I haven’t quite decided how the other arm is positioned so I drew in 2 variations.

We’re positioning/plotting dynamic figures in perspective now. It takes a lot of brain power & problem solving but I think I’m getting the hang of it after a whole day’s work!

Here’s a scenario I cooked up just to make the page interesting. There’s typical pre-battle drama unfolding here - Feel free to laugh! Nyaha-ha!

Medusa, the drawing project I’m currently working on. I think I’ll have to rearrange the snakes on her head as I ink - so they’d somehow seem to be moving WITH Medusa, not AGAINST her.

more fighting figures, women this time… “Don’t let her get away!”

Drawings from my sketchbook! I used Aaron Lopresti’s illustrations in (Crossgen) Mystic as reference. The heroine is Giselle Villard, a powerful sorceress.

Drawing figures standing still or just sitting down for the past 2 months certainly felt like I’ve been drawing figures with half-lives.

Figures in Motion - at long last, we meet again!

Now that I’ve advanced to this subject, I feel quite relieved. I was beginning to imagine myself getting stuck in the Twilight Zone of stick figures forever.

Drawing dynamic figures is my favorite topic - this is where one can use the figure as a form of expression!

Here is my submission for The (Female) Human Figure in Motion.

Oh, I should have posted this days ago but never got around to it until now: The IDEAL Male & Female Pairing. This is how their proportions should be expressed when paired! To put simply, this is how Barbie & Ken ought to look like, by an artist’s ideals.

I’m also drawing some sketches in preparation for the final assignment on The Female Figure, which is to invent a seated or reclining figure.

It’s a bit of a struggle to just visualize & draw (without a reference picture)  a figure that’s got some parts bent, balled up or shortened in space while maintaining correct proportion (*nosebleed) - but in fairness to myself & my efforts I think I’m beginning to get the hang of it.

We’re now in the business of expressing & applying rhythm in The Female Figure while maintaining the correct weight distribution/balance in class. We’re asked to draw at least 1 rhythmic figure daily. Here’s my first!